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I suggest that:

• Image index be changed to Image index when unselected

• Selected be changed to Image index when selected

Selecting a node created earlier without a name is challenging: you have to click exactly in the right place. I suggest that when a node is created, Koda assign it a temporary name, e.g. Node1 (like Menu Editor). This name would be highlighted in the Text input box, ready for the user to enter his own name.

A related question: should Koda even allow a node to exist neither an image nor a name?

It would be user-friendly if images could be selected from a list: see how I have written the doc for To add a node.

It would be nice if icons showed in the treeview control as they do at run time.

Is image the correct word? Aren’t they always icons?

On the first launch of the day, I got an exception error. Screen shot attached.

The other screen shot is after clicking OK to the message box.

I was able to close Koda.

Then I was able to launch Koda normally.

Weird!

With OnClose, OnMaximize, OnMinimize set to Notify, Koda generated the following code with Generating Options set to MessageLoop mode:

#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=F:\Koda forms for PerfectScript\Pic ed test.kxf
$Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 623, 449, 192, 114)
$Icon1 = GUICtrlCreateIcon("D:\WINDOWS\system32\freecell.exe", -1, 136, 136, 121, 121)
$Pic1 = GUICtrlCreatePic("D:\WINDOWS\system32\setup.bmp", 392, 120, 177, 169)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###
 
While 1
	$nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
	Switch $nMsg
		Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
			Exit
 
		Case $Form1
		Case $Form1
		Case $Form1
	EndSwitch
WEnd

The last 3 cases look odd to me.

I would expect in MessageLoop mode:

• OnClose to default to Notify unless the code which is run by Koda is not the same as that generated

• As well as $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, two cases: $GUI_EVENT_MAXIMIZE and $GUI_EVENT_MINIMIZE

I then switched to OnEvent mode and got:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)
#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=F:\Koda forms for PerfectScript\Pic ed test.kxf
$Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 623, 449, 192, 114)
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "Form1Close")
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_MINIMIZE, "Form1Minimize")
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_MAXIMIZE, "Form1Maximize")
$Icon1 = GUICtrlCreateIcon("D:\WINDOWS\system32\freecell.exe", -1, 136, 136, 121, 121)
$Pic1 = GUICtrlCreatePic("D:\WINDOWS\system32\setup.bmp", 392, 120, 177, 169)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###
 
While 1
	Sleep(100)
WEnd
 
Func Form1Close()
 
EndFunc
Func Form1Maximize()
 
EndFunc
Func Form1Minimize()
 
EndFunc

I don’t see Exit, so it appears that this is not the code that is run by Koda. This is only an observation.

I am finding that it is very easy to loose the last menu item created. I was testing Creating a menu control.

I suggest that Menu Designer have OK and Cancel buttons. This would be user friendly – allowing a user to back out of a change – and could ensure that the last menu item added does indeed get added to the menu control.

Either MenuItem | RadioItem is not working or I don’t understand it. .kxf file, attached, generated:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=F:\Koda forms for PerfectScript\Menu radio test.kxf
$Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 623, 449, 192, 114)
$mnuFile = GUICtrlCreateMenu("&File")
$mnuOpen = GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Open", $mnuFile, -1 , 1)
$mnuSave = GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Save", $mnuFile, -1 , 1)
$MenuItem1 = GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("", $mnuFile)
$mnuExit = GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Exit", $mnuFile)
$mnuEdit = GUICtrlCreateMenu("&Edit")
$mnuOpts = GUICtrlCreateMenu("&Options")
$mnuHelp = GUICtrlCreateMenu("&Help")
$Label1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Label1", 224, 184, 36, 17)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###
 
While 1
	$nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
	Switch $nMsg
		Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
			Exit
 
	EndSwitch
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=F:\Koda forms for PerfectScript\Menu radio test.kxf
$Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 623, 449, 192, 114)
$mnuFile = GUICtrlCreateMenu("&File")
$mnuOpen = GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Open", $mnuFile, -1 , 1)
$mnuSave = GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Save", $mnuFile, -1 , 1)
$MenuItem1 = GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("", $mnuFile)
$mnuExit = GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Exit", $mnuFile)
$mnuEdit = GUICtrlCreateMenu("&Edit")
$mnuOpts = GUICtrlCreateMenu("&Options")
$mnuHelp = GUICtrlCreateMenu("&Help")
$Label1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Label1", 224, 184, 36, 17)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###
 
While 1
	$nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
	Switch $nMsg
		Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
			Exit
 
	EndSwitch
WEnd

I find it a little surprising that Data separator char is in Options but not in Generating Options. My understanding is that it is not saved with the form, so if the form was created when Options | Data separator char was (say) $ and the user later adds a ListBox where one of the items is $10, he has to recreate his form from scratch.

Thoughts?

I take ItemIndex to be the ordinal number of the Item that is shown initially ref 1).

With a List, I have played with Text. It seems always to show the Item with the ordinal that is assigned to ItemIndex. So why does Koda have both ItemIndex and Text? Or should Text be read-only?

The doc
from WinXP the “visual” height of combo cannot be set. Height parameter is showing height of opened combo. Koda allow you to change it manually.

I don’t understand. Is the doc saying that the collapsed height is fixed by XP and up, but that the user can set (with the Height property) the expanded height? If so.I have not been able to see this.

I have written:

sRealSize - Width and height are determined by original size of image

Is this correct?

The OnClick property does not work for me if I choose none. With none I expect that there will be no line GuiCtrlSetOnEvent for that control and for lots of things, like labels, I might not have an event.

I read in the doc:

The control will “notify” as normal

but do not see an OnClick property.

So how does the user tell a Dummy control to notify?

I take Position to be the initial position (value) of the slider.

I set Position to 40. It appeared not to generate any code. I did run. The slider showed at the left end of its range.

I suggest that Images be called ImageList. This will be clearer.

I suggest that Items be called Nodes.

I suggest that Images be called ImageList. Clearer

Alignment

I read the info on Alignment:

According to MSDN, the alignment of the leftmost column is always left-justified; it cannot be changed.

MSDN says in full:

If a column is added to a list-view control with index 0 (the leftmost column), it is always LVCFMT_LEFT. Setting other flags on column 0 does not override that alignment. Therefore if you keep inserting columns with index 0, the text in all columns are left-aligned. If you want the first column to be right-aligned or centered you can make a dummy column, then insert one or more columns with index 1 or higher and specify the alignment you require. Finally delete the dummy column.

• Based on MSDN, Koda would not allow me to right justify column 0, Animal
• So, following the MSDN procedure, I inserted another column and moved it up to be column 0.
• I set Animal, now column 1, to right justified
• I deleted column 0.

The form ran OK. The part of the generated code that does the ListView is here:

$ListView2 = GUICtrlCreateListView("Animal|Coat|Feet", 96, 384, 169, 113)
GUICtrlSendMsg(-1, $LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH, 0, 50)
GUICtrlSendMsg(-1, $LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH, 1, 50)
GUICtrlSendMsg(-1, $LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH, 2, 50)
_GUICtrlListView_JustifyColumn(GUICtrlGetHandle($ListView2), 0, 1)
$ListView2_0 = GUICtrlCreateListViewItem("Lucas|furry|paws", $List

I am wondering whether Koda would be able to do the work-around automatically, rather than the user having to do it manually. Perhaps Koda would need to create a zero-width column 0 so Object Inspector would allow the first column that shows in Collection editor to be right or center justified.

Just a thought.

While Alt-Left and Alt-Right have worked for me, I have just spent several minutes trying to get Alt-Left to work for me.

Screen shot and .kxf file are attached.

I wish I could be clearer as to what is happening. Alt-Left seems not to be working because the focus is not on TabSheet1. I also notice that the Form is active but Koda is not: odd.

When I first tried Alt-Left and Alt-Right they didn’t work. Then somehow they did.

The doc says;

If one of pages has “Hint” property set, Koda will always generate GUICtrlSetTip for first page - this is the only way to correct setting tip to previous pages.

I am not sure what this means.

Here is what I think it may mean:

If you set a Hint for a page other than the first page, Koda will also generate a Hint for the first page.

Does this mean that a Hint will be set for all pages?

Is this an AutoIt limitation?

Is the Hint on the first page the same as on the subsequent page?

I am surprised that there is no Enabled property in Object Inspector

1. Selected Height value
2. Pressed Del
3. Pressed Enter

Exception
Exception handled 2011-05-04 at 22:35:49 by
is not a valid integer
Address:
about Source of
Method: Line:

Same thing happened when Backspace key (rather than Del) was pressed.

The following properties are in Object Inspector but not in the doc:

• TAToolbar - Enabled, Height, Hint, Tab Order, Top, Visible, Width
• TAToolButton - Caption, Enabled, Height, Hint, ImageIndex, Top, Visible, Width

Please tell me which should be added to the doc. (Some I know, e.g. ImageIndex)

I notice that the caption in 1.7.3.1 is Number of recent file list. This does not make sense to me. It makes it look like recent file list has an ID number (or something).

I wrote:

I suggest that the caption be changed to Recent files in File menu. This is consistent with Undo levels. I also think that it is clearer.

Other wordings are possible.

Number of is redundant: the input box shows numbers.

The correct English usage is Contents.

The attached .kxf file, when run, shows a Hint for the Label on the third Page. The Hint should be for the Page.

Please update this image with your selection color.

A button with tbsDropDown does not show correctly when the form is run. Koda generates

_GUICtrlToolbar_AddButton($ToolBar1, 0, 20, 0, $BTNS_DROPDOWN)

The AutoIt help says:

_GUICtrlToolbar_AddButton($hWnd, $iID, $iImage[, $iString = 0[, $iStyle = 0[, $iState = 4[, $iParam = 0]]]])

Is this a code generator problem? Or is _GUICtrlToolbar flaky?

My first pass through the documentation is now complete, except for issues I have raised in open Bugtracker tasks. I will be proceeding to Pass 2. This will include replacing many #term_definitions with #remarks_headers.

How can I get a context menu to show when I press the accelerator key?

See attached for AutoIt error.

Please update with your color scheme

Please

An example from External Link:

GUICtrlCreateButton("Two", 10, 140, 80, 30)
_WinAPI_SetWindowLong(GUICtrlGetHandle(-1), $GWL_STYLE, BitAND(_WinAPI_GetWindowLong(GUICtrlGetHandle(-1), $GWL_STYLE), BitNOT($WS_TABSTOP)))

But first the inconsistency between Tab Order and WS_TABSTOP needs to be resolved.

I think that it would be more user-friendly to move Choose Script from start-up to when the info is needed, i.e. when the user first does Tools | Update Script in a session (and, of course, when more than one .au3 file uses the active form).

Choose Script would then be changed to ask: “Update which script?”. Otherwise the dialog would be the same as it is now.

Moving Choose Script would significantly help with the documentation effort. It is not documented because I haven’t thought of where to weave it in.

I set InputBox | Enabled to False. Koda generated:

$Input1 = GUICtrlCreateInput("1", 112, 56, 96, 21, 0)
$Updown1 = GUICtrlCreateUpdown($Input1)
GUICtrlSetLimit(-1, 1, 100)
GUICtrlSetState(-1, $GUI_DISABLE)

It should be:

$Input1 = GUICtrlCreateInput("1", 112, 56, 96, 21, 0)
GUICtrlSetState(-1, $GUI_DISABLE)
$Updown1 = GUICtrlCreateUpdown($Input1)
GUICtrlSetLimit(-1, 1, 100)

When BS_3STATE is checked, Check would offer True, Indeterminate and False. If Indeterminate is too long, Gray would fit.

If the user chose Gray and subsequently unchecked BS_3STATE, Check would automatically become False.

I don’t see how to check GUI_DROPACCEPTED in Edit control.

AutoIt has constants for them

Also: should I remove mention if image from SS_CENTERIMAGE?

I think that ES_MULTILINE should not appear in Object Inspector because an InputBox is by definition single-line.

ES_WANTRETURN is irrelevant to Input box because InputBox is single-line, so I think that it should not appear in Object Inspector. Same for ES_AUTOVSCROLL and WS_VSCROLL.

In C/C++, WS_GROUP is the way of marking a control as the first in a group, and another control as the last in the group. But AutoIt uses, and Koda generates, a pair of calls to GUICtrlCreateGroup. So I suggest removing WS_GROUP from TAInput in Object Inspector. The fewer styles there are, the easier it is for a user: some scrolling down is inevitable, but the less he needs to do so the less likely he is to miss a style that he needs to check or uncheck.

Koda shows WS_VISIBLE as forced, but AutoIt doesn’t. Further, WS_VISIBLE remains checked even when Visible is False. I suggest removing WS_VISIBLE.

I think that WS_CHILD only applies to Forms. So I suggest removing it from Object Inspector | TAInput.

With WS_HSCROLL checked, when a Form is run, the scroll bar is drawn over the Text. Koda insists that the Height be 21. It needs to allow a larger height when WS_HSCROLL is checked.

SS_NOTIFY is shown as checked and forced, even when OnCick has not been specified. But notification can be set/reset in OnClick. So I suggest removing SS_NOTIFY. I wonder whether SS_NOTIFY will work for a Label.

n C/C++, WS_GROUP is the way of marking a control as the first in a group, and another control as the last in the group. But AutoIt uses, and Koda generates, a pair of calls to GUICtrlCreateGroup. So I suggest removing WS_GROUP from TALabel in Object Inspector. The fewer styles there are, the easier it is for a user: some scrolling down is inevitable, but the less he needs to do so the less likely he is to miss a style that he needs to check or uncheck.

Koda shows WS_VISIBLE as forced, but AutoIt doesn’t. Further, WS_VISIBLE remains checked even when Visible is False. I suggest removing WS_VISIBLE.

I think that WS_CHILD only applies to Forms. So I suggest removing it from Object Inspector | TALabel.

I think that ES_MULTILINE should not appear in Object Inspector because an EditBox is by definition multi-line.

In C/C++, WS_GROUP is the way of marking a control as the first in a group, and another control as the last in the group. But AutoIt uses, and Koda generates, a pair of calls to GUICtrlCreateGroup. So I suggest removing WS_GROUP from TAEdit in Object Inspector. The fewer styles there are, the easier it is for a user: some scrolling down is inevitable, but the less he needs to do so the less likely he is to miss a style that he needs to check or uncheck.

Koda shows WS_VISIBLE as forced, but AutoIt doesn’t. Further, WS_VISIBLE remains checked even when Visible is False. I suggest removing WS_VISIBLE.

I think that WS_CHILD only applies to Forms. So I suggest removing it from Object Inspector | TAEdit.

Microsoft and AutoIt say that BS_PUSHLIKE applies to Checkbox and Radio, but not to Button. I suggest removing it from Button.

BS_ICON and BS_BITMAP: I think these are redundant because the user tells Koda which icon or bitmap to use in Picture.

WS_GROUP, WS_VISIBLE and WS_CHILD: see discussion in FS$273

WS_GROUP, WS_VISIBLE and WS_CHILD: see discussion in FS#273

With CBS_SIMPLE set, at design time, when I mouse to change the height of the control, the Height property does not change.

...chris

BS_RIGHTBUTTON: does not seem to do anything. So perhaps remove it from OI.

BS_GROUPBOX: redundant in TAGroup. So perhaps remove it from OI.

WS_GROUP: irrelevant to code generation. AutoIt normally uses GuiCtrlCreateGroup. So perhaps remove it from OI.

If the graphic created in Graphics Editor is too far down in the GE design area, and/or is to far the right, it may not be seen in the design area.

There are 3 possible solutions that I can think of:

• Have Koda reposition the graphic, and perhaps decrease it in size, so that all of it shows in the Graphics control
• Make the size of the design area in the Graphics Editor the same size as the Graphics control
• Add to the Graphics Editor the right and bottom bounds of the control, showing them as thick dashed lines. It would then be the responsibility of the user either to keep within the bounded design area or, when he leaves GE, to change the size of the control to fit the graphics.

SS_LEFTNOWORDWRAP appears in OI but is not, I think, applicable to a control that has no text

SS_SIMPLE seems to do nothing

SS_ETCHEDHORZ reduces the Height to 2, and when the Height is restored in OI, the graphic is not drawn. Indeed, Graphics Editor no longer shows the graphic although Item still shows 1 item.

SS_ETCHEDVERT behaves similarly except that the Width increased to about 630.

These tests were with a graphic that was larger than the control.

I suggest not showing SS_BITMAP in OI because it is redundant and, for AutoIt, incorrect: AutoIt supports BMP, JPG, and GIF.

For transparency, Form needs WS_EX_LAYERED, so perhaps this should be added to Form.

I do not see how SS_NOPREFIX applies to Pic.

SS_ICON: could be dropped from OI because it doesn’t add any info: TAIcon only handles, and requires, an icon.

SS_PREFIX applies to text, but TAIcon has no text.

FS#281 relates

TBS_ENABLESELRANGE, TBS_FIXEDLENGTH: I do not see a way of setting the selection range. It appears that GuiCtrlSlider... does not have selection range but _GuiCtrlSlider... does. TBS_ENABLESELRANGE is in SliderConstants.au3

TBS_NOTHUMB appears twice in OI.

TVS_LINESATROOT is only intended by MS to work if TVS_HASLINES is also set, so Koda should check TVS_HASLINES when user checks TVS_LINESATROOT.

TVS_FULLROWSELECT is only intended by MS to work if TVS_HASLINES is not set, so Koda should uncheck TVS_HASLINES when user checks TVS_FULLROWSELECT.

TVS_NOTOOLTIPS and TVS_INFOTIP show in OI but Treeview Editor does not provide a way of entering tool tips. AutoIt only seems to provide ways of setting tool tips via GUICtrlSendMsg or by calling a UDF. So I suggest removing these two styles from OI for now.

1. Icon and SmallIcon views are available in AutoIt so LVS_ICON and LVS_SMALLICON should not be disabled. The points below assume the present situation: only List and Report view available. I have added to the doc “At this time, only Report and List views are available in Koda”.

1. Koda can know that if if there are Columns, the view is Report else it is List. So until Icon and SmallIcon views are added, LVS_LIST and LVS_REPORT could be removed.

1. With LVS_LIST checked, Koda generated BitOr($GUI_SS_DEF_LV,LVS_SMALLICON). It so happens that this has the same value as LVS_LIST – but untidy

1. LVS_COLUMNHEADERS only applies to Report style, so it should be disabled when LVS_LIST is checked

1. Collection editor: if you enter only one row, no column header is created

1. LVS_NOSORTHEADER should be removed from OI because it doesn’t work and AutoIt help says that double-click to sort rhas not been implemented.

1. Multiple selection only works in Report view so LVS_SINGLESEL should be disabled in List view.

1. Check LVS_SORTASCENDING and then check LVS_SORTDESCENDING: LVS_SORTASCENDING is still checked. Because mask is missing from styles.xml.

1. LVS_AUTOARRANGE, LVS_ALIGNTOP and LVS_ALIGNLEFT are only intended for Icon and SmallIcon views, so should be removed.

1. LVS_ALIGNTOP will not uncheck.